Don't hire new grads as manager due to lack of experience and guidance to those that have done the work and knows what they are doing. Manager should also be open minded to ideas that are put in from the team and not just one specific person again it goes in saying of hiring someone with experience.

I LOVED working at Edwards Lifesciences. The people you meet and work with become lifelong friends. They are very, very, very inclusive. So many different cultures and lifestyles make the work environment so great! The company is very devoted to making sure everyone is included and respected. The work can be a bit tedious if you don't like to stand, but it goes by quickly as there is little down time. Lots of work events make it all super fun. The pay, vacation and sick hours, and benefits alone will make you want to work here. On-site gyms and cafes are also a plus. The schedule is also super great and allows time for any other responsibilities you may have outside of work. I would recommend this place to anyone and everyone!

This job would have been great if not for my health issues and the hour-long commute. The shift can be strenuous, 10 1/2 hours Monday through Thursday, with occasional overtime opportunities.

Be prepared to work hard. The tasks are sometimes difficult to master, but frequent breaks are provided, with a regimen of ergonomic stretches to prevent muscle strain from repetitive motion. The pay is competitive, and the company values its employees' health and well-being.

Mastery of English is not a requirement; most supervisors and line leads are multi-lingual, as are some of the engineers.

Pros

Onsite nurse, cafeteria, & gym w/showers

Cons

Noisy workplace, rigidly monitored; not for those with anxiety or sensory disorders

Assembly work is somewhat strenuous, but starting salary for temp employees is very fair, and as soon as you are certified it increases significantly. For the most part, management is friendly and easy to work with, but intermediate parties such as team leads or supervisors are a mixed bag.

Edwards is an old-fashioned company that tries to be like innovative companies but simply is not. The management style is from the 60s or so. The culture is close to 100% political with very little consideration for performance or actual leadership. Leadership is defined by loyalty and head-nodding. Managers have no accountability for their performance as there is no safe feedback mechanism for the people they try to manage - hence the 60s reference above.

Career opportunities and work/life balance. Great culture and great cafeteria. Management is great and fun atmosphere to work in. Really hard to get into the company as they do their due diligence on hiring the right people.

there are diversity of people working there but no opportunities for all of them to get promoted, plus senior employees believe they are the owner of the company and they don't help you at least you are ASIA, yes there is a lot discrimination agains to other culture in terms of team work and management know about it but they ignore because all they care is about productivity and it doesn't matter about issues on the floor, also if you do not play their games then you are out .

Fast past they care more of the quantity of heart valves even when all they rave about is taking the time and to do quality work but will give you a certain amount of time to sew a valve. They will work your hands hard holding this small valve for 6 hours and 30 minutes. Arthritis is a given not including youre seated that whole Time in a hunches over position looking into a microscope. Inhuman place to work and it seems they keep it staffed with Asians because let’s face it they are willing to work through the situation. Clueless management.

Terrible place to work. Management is clueless. There is no strategy or planning. The company still acts as if it is a little shop.It is not. No coordination between global sites. People jump over each other to get promotions.Communication between management and employees is nonexistent.

Doing graphics in the labeling department is a terrible job.Every mistake is recorded. And a mistake can be forgetting to make a letter bold instead of regular type. A lot of the files you work on will be 25 page "IFUs" filled with 24 different languages in 7 point type. If an accent is tilted the wrong way - that's an error. If a portion of a line in a full page graph is .5pt instead of 1pt that's an error.And remember they chart every error while expecting you work to be pretty much error free. And you better work quick because your co-designers will be monitoring your speed and reporting if you are not up to their speed.It's a cut throat department with over 2/3 turn over rate. I warn you - this place is a nightmare.

I would be fulfilling the company's purchase orders daily, yet making sure that those orders were compliant with the active contracts we had with the vendors.

I was fortunate enough to work with a well-coordinated team that continuously reaches goals in a timely manner, lead by my director who showed me how to excel at my position. He was someone I got along with well, but fair and straight-to-the-point when it was time to get things done.

The hardest part of the job was during the last month of the year, when all departments were sending me their final rushes of purchase orders to use up their remaining budgets and having to fulfill those orders before the year was over. I usually would have to work overtime on most days in that month.

The part I enjoyed the most was working with a team that allowed me to be a part of something bigger than myself. I would consistently work with my team to make sure those purchase orders are processed on time and done correctly.

While I enjoyed the people I worked with there, Edwards LifeSciences' manufacturing employees are often stressed out to their physical limits and beyond. Edwards management continues to push the heart valve assembler workers to be more efficient to the point where they receive injuries to their hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, and back pain. Most of heart valve assemblers are older Vietnamese, Cambodians and Hispanic who are new to this country, lack formal education, ignorant of worker's rights, are often afraid to report of pain they have acquired due to work overload. There are stories where an assembler hurt herself so bad where she couldn't lift up her shoulder. Only then will she report her pain. Heart valve assemblers should not be treated like a modern day slave by a so called "world class company" such as Edwards LifeSciences.

Well if your idea of a fun working environment is an unspoken Game of Thrones political culture and unlimited working hours, then EW is for you! For every decent director, there are 9 others who are more interested in their own career advancement and think nothing of throwing people under the bus. I can only comment on their corporate headquarters in Irvine.

I worked at Edwards for 26 and a half years. Most of the experience was very positive. The company always had a lot of internal politics going on and bickering between levels of management, product lines, and the satellite plants. I was immune to it until my manager of 22 years retired. Its a great place to work if you have a good manager. But when you get on in years there, and getting close to retirement, they take a heavy handed approach to getting rid of people. If you happen to work for a good manager, your experience will be a positive one. The problem is that there are a lot of bad managers there who are career climbing and creating empires for themselves. They don't care who they hurt financially. Good luck! The CEO is great, but didn't do me any good at the end.

Pros

Great campus, nice lunch room, good benefits.

Cons

If someone is out to get you, they will, they don't care who they hurt.

Edward Good company, good culture, Good workWorking at Edwards Lifesciences I was able to meet many new people and interact with people from different cultures. It was an environment where people got along great and would become friends easily. It was a low-stress job with repetitive tasks that were simple to complete.This is a serious and scientific workplace, everything is very professional.I learned a lot here. I learned how to work in groups, I learned how to create the best work. And how to solve the trouble when working